Personality Introductory Issues. Personality Defined  Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that is organized.

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Personality Defined  Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that is organized and relatively enduring and that influences his or her interactions with, and adaptations to, the environment (including the intrapsychic, physical, and social environment).

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Personality Defined  Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that is organized and relatively enduring and that influences his or her interactions with, and adaptations to, the environment (including the intrapsychic, physical, and social environment).

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Personality Defined   Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that is organized and relatively enduring and that influences his or her interactions with, and adaptations to, the environment (including the intrapsychic, physical, and social environment).

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Personality Defined   Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that is organized and relatively enduring and that influences his or her interactions with, and adaptations to, the environment (including the intrapsychic, physical, and social environment).

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Personality Defined   Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that is organized and relatively enduring and that influence his or her interactions with, and adaptations to, the environment (including the intrapsychic, physical, and social environment).

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Personality Defined   Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that is organized and relatively enduring and that influences his or her interactions with, and adaptations to, the environment (including the intrapsychic, physical, and social environment).

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Personality Defined   Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that is organized and relatively enduring and that influences his or her interactions with, and adaptations to, the environment (including the intrapsychic, physical, and social environment).

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Personality Defined   Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that is organized and relatively enduring and that influences his or her interactions with, and adaptations to, the environment (including the intrapsychic, physical, and social environment).

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Personality Defined   Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that is organized and relatively enduring and that influences his or her interactions with, and adaptations to, the environment (including the intrapsychic, physical, and social environment).

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Current Issues in Personality Are people consistent over situations? Are people stable over time?

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What of Personality Intrapsychic Dispositional How of Personality Cognitive-Experiential Social and Cultural Biological Domain Scheme

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Intrapsychic Domain Deals with mental mechanisms of personality, many of which operate outside conscious awareness Classic and modern versions of Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis, including work on repression, denial, projection, and motives for power, achievement, and affiliation

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Dispositional Domain Deals with ways in which individuals differ from one another and, therefore, cuts across all other domains Focus on number and nature of fundamental dispositions

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Cognitive-Experiential Domain Focuses on cognition and subjective experience, such as conscious thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and desires about oneself and others Self and self-concept Goals we set and strive to meet Emotional experiences, in general and over time

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Social and Cultural Domain Assumption that personality affects, and is affected by, cultural and social contexts Much work on cultural differences between groups (e.g., in social acceptability of aggression)

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Biological Domain Core assumption of biological approaches to personality is that humans are collections of biological systems, and these systems provide building blocks for behavior, thought, and emotion Behavioral genetics of personality Psychophysiology of personality Evolutionary personality psychology